smoking

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Engaging in the smoking of tobacco: smoking passengers.

adj. Designated or reserved for smokers: the smoking section of a restaurant.

adj. Of or relating to the use of tobacco: corporate smoking policies.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. Present participle of smoke.

n. The inhalation of tobacco, or use substances.

adj. Giving off smoke.

adj. Sexually attractive, usually referring to a woman.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

a. & n. from smoke.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act of emitting smoke.

n. The act of holding a lighted cigar, cigarette, or pipe in the mouth and drawing in and emitting the smoke: also used in composition with reference to things connected with this practice: as, a smoking-car; a smoking-saloon.

Etymologies

Examples

I know that smoking is considered oh so politically incorrect these days, but here’s a novel idea; in the finest traditions of freedom and democracy, why not have ’smoking’ and ‘non smoking’ bars, pubs, and restaurants?

Officials are now focusing their investigation on nine California farms, narrowing their investigation after finding what they called the smoking gun, in this case, a bag of contaminated spinach found in the home of a consumer.